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ONE of my car accessories is a dead giveaway. My license plate cover reads “LIBRARIES ARE ESSENTIAL––I LOVE MY LIBRARY.” As children, after school, we scampered past the duck pond up the hill to the Wellesley Free Library in eastern Massachusetts, paused to...

In October 2006, two Chinese victims of silicosis paid a visit to the village of Shakarpur, 80 kilometers from Baroda, an Indian city in the state of Gujarat where regional NGOs had organized a meeting devoted to this disease. The event was a memorable one...

As scholars of American history meeting in New Orleans, we certainly do not need to be reminded of this city’s dynamic history. Nor do we need to be reminded of the complex history of America’s urbanization and the growth of its cities. Yet historians of...

On the Centennial of United States Entry Into World War I, the Proposal for a Pending National Memorial in Washington, D. C. Falls Short The Korean conflict of the 1950s is often referred to as the nation’s “forgotten war,” yet how many Americans recall the...

Why should everyone in the world raise their dementia-awareness? Across our country and around the world there is a lack of awareness, creating harmful myths surrounding dementia, thereby resulting in stigmatization, barriers to diagnosis and care, and...

A new Johns Hopkins book, That Swing: Poems 2008-2016, takes its title from Duke Ellington's song "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing." That statement seems to fit a collection of verse almost entirely written in meter---regular rhythms----and...

Have you ever wondered why Piaget is a household name in any discourse related to child development? Although Piaget’s theory is well ensconced in schooling discourse, Vygotsky’s view of human development is gaining a great deal of traction. Why? Grit is...

Earlier this month, the Marine Corps and other branches of the U.S. armed forces came under fire after service members posted nude and partially nude photos of their fellow personnel to Facebook and other websites. When Marine veteran Erika Butner discovered...

After 19 years at Freddie Mac, I have an insider’s perspective on the housing crisis of 2008. So I wrote a book about it: Days of Slaughter: Inside the Fall of Freddie Mac and Why It Could Happen Again. Here’s why you shouldn’t read it. You totally think...

Each year I teach an upper-division course on the History of Science and Religion. The course draws students from a variety of religious and nonreligious backgrounds, most of whom are studying science. Year after year I find that my students hold the same...